Tag: "strategy" at biology news

...e Children's Research Hospital insights into a key strategy cancer cells use to survive and thrive. The findi...pase activation and cannot undergo apoptosis. That strategy would be the basis of novel anti-cancer drugs. The St. Jude study was conducted in culture dishes...

...ications for the development of a vaccine or other strategy to protect against or fight off Alzheimer’s. Work on an Alzheimer’s vaccine has at times been promising, reducing the number of plaques in the brains of animals and a few people with the disease, but it’s also been fraught with difficulty, producing ...

...search shows how tumor cells use a clever chemical strategy to exploit this slow, one-way flow in order to migrate to functional lymphatic vessels. As part of their intercellular drainage job, lymphatic tissues secrete small quantities of a signaling molecule. Cells migrate towards high concentrations of...

...Conservation, and Tourism to launch a conservation strategy that will safeguard the region’s wildlife and wild lands, which may now rank among the richest in Africa. The plan would include the integration of several thousand ex-combatants from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army into wildlife services, help es...

Suppressing colony formation is a useful strategy against copepods because they prefer to eat coloni...ng the phytoplankton, therefore, the best survival strategy of Phaeocystis is to form solitary cells. When ciliates are attacking, the best strategy is to form...

...e expression in different types of stem cells, the strategy used in this study was unique. Rather than simply searching for any genes expressed by stem cells, the researchers looked for genes whose expression was also correlated with the master stem cell regulator gene Oct4. They also applied very rigorous an...

...g to calm the STN over-activity. The value of this strategy has been demonstrated in previous human studies where reducing STN activity by either electrical stimulation or lesioning can help ameliorate the symptoms of advanced Parkinson’s disease. The Phase 1 study was not specifically designed to assess e...

... earlier analysis that indicates that a prevention strategy using Tamiflu may help contain a pandemic outbreak...s that a similar approach may also be an effective strategy in the event of an actual pandemic outbreak, especially as it is unlikely that a vaccine fully match...

...armacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have patented a strategy for developing a human vaccine to prevent against ...s.” She added that the next step is to apply this strategy to create a vaccine for use in humans. CMV is a virus that, while carried by the majority of adul...

... a consequence of the unusual and derived foraging strategy of the army ant (Eciton burchellii). This highlights the importance of considering ecology and evolutionary history in the study of social organisation in animal societies....

...indings could result in a more aggressive clinical strategy for patients who may appear to have a severe SCI but may indeed have the capacity for substantial neurological recovery." According to the National Spinal Cord Association, 250,000 to 400,000 people in the United States are living with SCI or spin...

...ctivates it needs to take over." With an overall strategy in place, Moeller and his collaborators are working to expand the scope of reactions that can be done. For example, they have carried out the oxidation of an alcohol to form a carbonyl and then used the carbonyl to put a dye down. They placed a green...

...e's decisions. The group modeled each individual's strategy for making yearly vaccination decisions as an adaptive process of trial and error. They tracked both individual-level decisions and population-level variables ?that is, the yearly vaccine coverage level and influenza prevalence, where prevalence is d...

... however, that the realization of such a treatment strategy remains uncertain and would require years of continued investigation. Cells and organisms must strike an appropriate balance between nutrient sufficiency and surplus, the researchers explained. While adequate amounts of nutrients must be obtained ...

...aracteristics of the invasives are and target your strategy to those characteristics," he said. Funk pointed to recent experiments that tried to eliminate invaders by deliberately reducing available resources-for example, by mixing sugar into the soil to lock up nutrients or by blocking sunlight with tarps...

...des validation for fat cell screens as a promising strategy for identifying new metabolic drugs, according to the researchers. While harmine itself has effects on the central nervous system that may preclude its use, "it may eventually be possible to separate the nervous system and metabolic effects of har...

... "The parasite’s life cycle is a really amazing strategy for an organism that doesn’t have a brain," says Byers, who predicts that anywhere gulls are prevalent, the C. lingua trematode would also be prevalent. A laboratory experiment confirmed Wood’s and Byers?hypothesis: snails infected with the parasi...

...ted mood disorders such as anxiety. An alternative strategy may be to directly target the ‘brain’s own marijuana.’? The success of such a strategy requires a better understanding of how endocannabinoid moderates stress-related behaviors and how st...

...said. Lin’s nanoparticle has a unique "capping" strategy that seals the chemical goods inside. In previous studies, his group successfully demonstrated that the caps can be chemically activated to pop open and release the cargo inside of animal cells. This unique feature provides total control for timing t...

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